Both notables will pen weekly blogs that appear each Thursday on MMAjunkie.com beginning this week.

“TUF 13,” the latest season of the UFC’s long-running reality series, debuts March 30 on Spike TV.

The show features UFC heavyweight contenders Brock Lesnar and Junior Dos Santos as head coaches. Fourteen welterweight fighters compete in a 16-slot tournament. It includes a “wild card” fight that allows one opening-round loser a second-chance entry into the quarterfinals. The show concludes with a live finale and crowns a “TUF 13″ champion on June 4 in Las Vegas.

In their weekly blogs, Cope and Polley will discuss the rigors of appearing on the groundbreaking series, and they’ll take MMAjunkie.com readers behind the scenes of the show to discuss the events that don’t always make it to air.

The duo joins a long list of notable “TUF” bloggers for MMAjunkie.com that includes fighters Ryan Bader, C.B. Dollaway, DaMarques Johnson, Brendan Schaub, Brad Tavares, Kyle Watson and Luke Zachrich, as well as coach Ken Hahn.

Cope, (4-1 MMA, 0-0 UFC), a native Californian nicknamed “C-Murder,” most recently scored a TKO win over Ron Keslar on the undercard of “Strikeforce: Fedor vs. Werdum.” The former junior-college basketball player and longtime martial artist took up MMA after meeting the likes of Chuck Liddell, Bas Rutten and Pat Miletich at the Paradise Warrior Retreat Center. His MMA training eventually took him from the American Kickboxing Academy to Undisputed Martial Arts to Team Quest to his current home at The Arena, a San Diego-based gym that’s home to fighters such as Roger Huerta, Evangelista “Cyborg” Santos, Joe Brammer and Rani Yahya.

The UC-Santa Barbara graduate currently works for a law firm in downtown San Diego. His ultimately goal is fight professionally and to be a lawyer simultaneously.

“More than anything, I want people to know that I’m a martial artist who fights professionally,” Cope said. “I’m not a prizefighter or a cage fighter. I will be doing martial arts until the day I drop dead.”

Polley, who serves as the Team Dos Santos wrestling coach, is a five-year pro who owns a 10-4 MMA record. Eight of the lifelong wrestler’s 10 wins have come via submission. Prior to the show, Polley was a trainer at the Alliance Training Center. Since leaving the “TUF” set, Polley has taken up residence in Denver, where he’s training at Grudge Training Center and FactoryX.

“When I was asked to become one of Dos Santos’ coaches, I had to decide if putting my fighting career on hold was the right choice,” Polley said. “I am glad I got the chance to coach and meet some of the future athletes in our sport.”

Cope, who is represented by Jeff Clark MMA, can be found on Twitter at @chriscope5. Polley, who is represented by Ingrained Media, can be found at @LewPolley.

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